University of Á¢²©¹ÙÍø graduates under the age of 25 and available for full-time work have again achieved outstanding employment rates and high graduate salaries.
Graduate Careers Australia’s Graduate Destination Survey 2005 released on December 13 reveals that University of Á¢²©¹ÙÍø graduates continued to be highly sought by employers.
In the national performance figures compiled by the Federal Government, the University had achieved a full-time employment rate for bachelor degree graduates for 2004 of 85.4 percent against the national full-time employment figure of 80.9 percent.
Over an extended period, the University has had 5 percent of its graduates recorded as unemployed and seeking full-time employment in the Graduate Destination Survey.
UQ graduates reported high full-time employment rates in fields such as Medicine (100 percent); Pharmacy (97 percent); Veterinary Science (92 percent); Speech Pathology (80.7 percent); Physiotherapy (78 percent).
UQ bachelor degree graduates in their first full-time employment (and under 25 years of age) reported starting salaries similar to the national median starting salaries of $40,000 for males (UQ $40,000) and $39,000 for females (UQ $36,000).
Of those in their first full-time employment, the higher end salaries included commerce, mining engineering, mechanical and space engineering, and business management/economics.
Pilot (B Commerce) = $120,000
Mining Engineer (B Eng (Mining) = $95,000
Analyst (BCom/BEcon) = $92,500
Project Engineer (B Eng (Mechanical & Space) = $90,500
Manager Strategic Development (B BusMan/BEcon) = $80,000
The figures for UQ bachelor degree graduates in further full-time study represented 34 percent against a national figure of 22.5 percent.
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